Tamara Kalo
Olive Leaves Memories, 2024
Paper, olive leaves, plastic, thread, silver gelatin paper
23 x 30 x 1.90 cm
Copyright The Artist
Olive Leaves Memories is a folding book that pays homage to the olive tree in a time when unfolding violence has impeded what should have been a sacred harvest season....
Olive Leaves Memories is a folding book that pays homage to the olive tree in a time when unfolding violence has impeded what should have been a sacred harvest season.
The handmade book holds space for the olive tree and recalls its stories through a visual record of its traces and marks. By embedding the leaves within recycled plastic and using them to form photograms, it is a multifaceted and collaborative endeavour between the artist and the olive tree. The leaves were collected from a tree in the backyard of the home the artist grew up in. The book itself is bound with threads dyed with pigment extracted from the olive leaves.
The book is a call to listen to the land and its memories, with particular reference to the olive tree, its ancestral significance and its capability of outliving generations.
The handmade book holds space for the olive tree and recalls its stories through a visual record of its traces and marks. By embedding the leaves within recycled plastic and using them to form photograms, it is a multifaceted and collaborative endeavour between the artist and the olive tree. The leaves were collected from a tree in the backyard of the home the artist grew up in. The book itself is bound with threads dyed with pigment extracted from the olive leaves.
The book is a call to listen to the land and its memories, with particular reference to the olive tree, its ancestral significance and its capability of outliving generations.
